Goodreads asked Judith Allen Shone:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Judith Allen Shone I have lived the life of a caregiver for over seven years. While in this role I have witnessed many others who were as alone, afraid, untrained, and some unwilling, as I was. In time, I did come to accept caregiving and now call it a gift. But I resisted, and saw many others who, like me, might have accepted sooner if they had known a bit of what was ahead. No one knows the day they will be tapped to become a caregiver, or even need one. I hoped by writing our stories, making situations familiar, I might be a bridge between fear and acceptance. Caregivers desperately need, must have, support. It is not a role for one. I did it. I know. I chose to get that message out there in a way I could, in a manner it might be remembered...through stories.

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